Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Pether depicts a moonlit Venice
02 December 2024A trademark painting by Henry Pether (1800-80) attracted significant interest and sold for a solid price at Kinghams’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine & Decorative Arts auction.
Ronner-Knip feline work is catnip to eager collectors
02 December 2024Pictures by the Dutch artist Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821- 1909) are pretty abundant on the market but the considerable popularity of her characterful feline studies means they are invariably a valuable proposition.
Cedric Morris’ apple painting finds plenty of appeal
29 November 2024While flower paintings by the artist-plantsman Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) are now a familiar sight at auction and invariably a valuable proposition, his depictions of fruit and vegetables are equally interesting and vivid.
Museum’s fitting purchase for the ‘sport of kings’
25 November 2024The National Horseracing Museum (NHRM) in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction this year.
Bilbao depicted before industrialisation
25 November 2024A large and historic view of Bilbao in Spain was among the lots bringing competition at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (26% buyer’s premium) of Exeter.
Dreweatts bucks trend of struggles at the top end
25 November 2024Booming regional auction house points to experience and contacts as key to source high calibre works
Roman mosaics found in Hampshire blocked from export
22 November 2024The UK government has placed a temporary export bar on two Roman mosaics dating from the fourth century AD. Together they are valued at £560,000.
Portrait of Charles II goes on view at National Horseracing Museum after auction purchase
21 November 2024The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction earlier this year.
Bidders looks past condition issues as William Blacklock painting flies to 25 times estimate
20 November 2024You might think that when a picture is covered in dirt, suffers from a puncture and paint losses, and also has a tear so large you could put your hand through it, then that would ‘kill’ its prospects at auction.
‘Flipped’ Orpen portrait makes tidy profit for vendor just four months later
18 November 2024A US-based vendor cashed in when a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his lover Evelyn St George sold at Sotheby’s for more than double the amount it had fetched less than four months earlier at a New Jersey auction.
Modern & Contemporary art: Signs of a market on the move
18 November 2024Artists who had been achieving modest levels of success are catching up with the help of young collectors
Gaudier-Brzeska torpedo fish sculpture shoots to £30,000
18 November 2024A bronze by the French artist and sculptor Henri Gaudier- Brzeska (1891-1915), who died in the trenches aged just 23, was among the lots bringing demand at Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern & Contemporary art.
Ashmolean Museum buys export-blocked Fra Angelico panel
15 November 2024Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.
Van Dyck horse portrait rides back into the saleroom
14 November 2024Vendor looks to double their money after discovering Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘only surviving landscape’ on the back of equestrian portrait
Bonhams sets new auction record for any glass object
13 November 2024A 14th-century mosque lamp from Egypt or Syria achieved the highest price for a glass object at auction when it sold at four times estimate at Bonhams in London yesterday.
Kettle's Yard buys Dorothy Bohm photograph taken in Cambridge museum
12 November 2024Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.
Terence Cuneo works both classic and curious on offer in Essex
11 November 2024A cross-section of the work of Terence Cuneo (1907-96) featured as part of Sworders’ latest sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Stansted Mountfitchet.
Ruskin Spear’s sharp social comment in pictorial form
11 November 2024Modern British painter depicted local life in west London including pub interiors and characters
Victorian artist's moonlit view of Venice finds appeal in Gloucestershire auction
08 November 2024A trademark painting by Henry Pether (1800-80) attracted significant interest and sold for a solid price at Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine & Decorative Arts sale.
Second tranche of ‘unparalleled’ collection of Rembrandt prints heads to Christie’s
07 November 2024Christie’s will offer a further 90 Rembrandt prints from the collection of the late Sam Josefowitz next month.